18 Tees Being Sodded Today

We are hoping to have the new tees open in 2-3 weeks.

Dryject on Greens Today

Lets hope the rain holds off until we finish the greens today.  This is the final step of our 1st April aerification.  We will be doing this all again on April 28th in preparation for the upcoming season.

Snow Mold in Roughs

The prolonged snow cover this past winter, and no fungicide applications and north facing slopes has led to a substantial amount of snow mold in our roughs, most notably our bentgrass and poa roughs.  This will grow out with warm weather and is more unsightly than anything.  Once we eliminate these poor roughs with our renovation in the future, the problem will lessen or disappear altogether.

Replacing Sand in Newer Bunkers

The newer bunkers we constructed last year are getting new sand.  While we liked the bunker sand we originally installed, it dried to quickly leading to plugged balls and a lot of maintenance to try to eliminate the problem.  We found a new sand last fall that we used on our last 5 holes that the membership liked and we will now use this sand moving forward.
The old bunker sand is being reused as a fairway topdressing so it is not being wasted.  This spring we will be putting about 350 tons of sand on our fairways, including the approximate 100 tons we removed from the bunkers as our fairway topdressing and replaced bunker sand are almost identical in texture and size.

Greens Aerification Underway

Greens aerification has begun and we are being aggressive this spring with our busy golf schedule this season.  We are using 3/4" tines on the deep tiner and 5/8" tines on the standard aerifier and then following it up this Monday with a dryject application.  All in all we will have put almost 100 tons of sand on the greens this spring.  We will deep tine again and dryject again on April 27th.

18th Tees Getting Ready for Sod

We have reconstructed the tees on 18, the blue is about 5 yards longer, the white and ladies tees remain the same and the senior tee moves up about 25 yards.  Once sod is available, we will have the 18th hole finished.

Continued Tree Work on 3rd and 4th Holes

In order to get better sunlight on the 3rd green and make the view even more dramatic, more trees were removed on the 4th hole this winter.  More trees will be removed in the woods behind the 4th green in the future to make the vista even more dramatic.